Cheerleader mom’s daughter breaks silence in 1991 plot

It’s been 20 years since the infamous “Cheerleader Mom” trial in Houston, in which Channelview’s Wanda Webb Holloway was convicted and sentenced to prison for the attempted murder of a neighbor over their daughter’s cheerleader status.

The case got national attention and two movies were made out of the case, and a book. Holloway was released in 1997 after a second trial.

Now Wanda’s daughter, Shanna Widner, who was just a 13-year-old 8th grader when it was all going down, is speaking out to ABC-TV‘:

“When it all happened, it wasn’t talked about in my family,” Widner, now a 34-year-old mother of two sons, said today in an exclusive interview on Good Morning America.

“We didn’t discuss it. It was like it didn’t happen. It was just put on the back burner like nothing had happened,” she said. …

Today Widner lives just 30 minutes from the town where she grew up and stays in touch with her mom through her sons, Holloway’s grandchildren.

“You have to understand that I’ve only started dealing with this two years ago,” she said of why she allows her mother and sons to stay so close.